Parquetry for floors



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L. MERRILL. PARQUETRY FOR Moons. No. 352,556. Patented Nov. 16, 1886.

' represents the blocks forming the parquetry.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

LUTHER MERRILL, OF QSTERDOGK, IOWA.

PARQVUETRY oe FLOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,556, dated November 16, 1886.

Application filed July 15, 1886.

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUTHER MERRILL,a citizen of the United States, residing at Osterdock, in the county of Clayton and State of Iowa,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Parquetry for Floors, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in parquetry for floors and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my invention, partlyin horizontal section. Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the same, showing the manner of attaching the blocks to the floor. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of one of theblocks. Fig. 4 is a similar View of one of the headed nails. Fig. 51s a similar view of one of the corner-fastenings.

The object of my invention is to provide means for attaching the blocks to the floor so that the blocks may be firmly secured in place, and the means employed for securing the blocks in place may be entirely invisible.

A represents a section of the floor, and B These blocks may be either square or lozengeshaped,or of any other preferred form, and are provided in their edges with grooves G, which extend entirely around the blocks, the said grooves being cut midway between the upper and lower sides of the blocks.

In order to secure the blocks to the floor, I first place each block on the floor in the proper position,and secure one edge of the same to the fioor by means of a headed nail or tack,D. One side of the head d of the tack or nail enters the groove 0 on one side of the block. I

then drive another similar tack or nail in the floor on the opposite side of the block, and when the head of the said tack or nail is on the same horizontal plane as the groove 0, I

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'bend the said nail or tack laterally, so as to cause one half of the head thereof to enter the groove in the outer edge of the block. The next adjacent block is then placed in position, and the remaining half of the head of the nail or tack is caused to engage the groove in the opposing side or edge of the block, and the opposite edge of the same is secured to the floor in the manner before described. It will thus be seen that the heads of the nails engage the grooves in the opposing edges of the blocks at the joints, and that the heads of the said nails are entirely invisible when the blocks are of sight.

Parquetry flooring thus constructed is simple and inexpensive, and the blocks may be very rapidly attached to the floor, and are so firmly secured thereto as render the parquetry exceedingly durable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The combination, with the floor, of the blocks B,having the grooves O in their meeting edges, and the nails or tacks to secure the blocks to the floor, and having the laterallyextending heads adapted to enter the recesses formed by the grooves in the'edges of the blocks when the latter are placed together, substantially as described.

.In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LUTHER MERRILL.

Witnesses:

J NO. H. HILL. WM. BOUNAM. 

